Mets’ Juan Soto exits game vs. Padres with right foot contusion
San Diego – Juan Soto is without action in San Diego, but it seems that he dodged a bullet.
The Diet Star Right Field Player left Tuesday evening’s match against the Padres with a bruise of the right foot in the middle of the fourth round. With the drops down 1-0 at Petco Park and Soto leading against the right-hander Ryan Bergert, he obtained a 0-2 cursor inside and dirty it to keep the stick alive, but he hit the top of his right foot and he jumped out of the shot box in obvious discomfort.
Soto hooked the first baseline while trying to shake his foot while the coaches came out of the visitor’s canoe. After them, after them, he was allowed to stay in the game and finish his At-Bat. He finally finished in the second goal, and when he ran, he could not push his foot without pain.
There is considerable optimism after the X -rays were negative for breaks or fractures.
“I think it’s going to be good,” said Soto. “We just have to reduce the swelling. Each time it slows down, I think we are well. I mean, the radiographs are negative, so it’s a good sign, we just have to wait for the swelling to go down and go back to work.”
The dishes replaced him in the outer field at the bottom of the English Channel, moving Jeff McNeil from the central field on the right, and inserting Tyrone Taylor in the central field for the half-manche only. Starling Marte Pinch-Hit for Taylor in place of Soto in the fifth and played the right field for the fourth time this season. It was only the sixth time that the veteran voltiseur entered the outside field this year.
Soto was 0 for 2 at night and 0 for 6 with a race marked in the series.
“Not a good feeling, especially when you watch him go down like that and seem that there is a lot of pain there,” said manager Carlos Mendoza. “Then he hits this ball and he looks uncomfortable running on the line. First of all, the coach says: ‘I have to go there and I have to take radiographies here. So you just hold your breath there. Once I got the news, there was obviously a feeling of relief there.”
The 26 -year -old proved to be particularly lasting throughout his eight -year career in the League. He has not been on the injured list since 2021, when he set off his right shoulder. Member of the Washington Nationals at the time, he won the title of NL striker this season. Two years ago, he played the 162 games for the Padres.
Last year, Soto missed a handful of games with inflammation of the forearm in his left arm and a bruised right hand. So far this season, his first with the dishes, he has not missed only one match, which was a scheduled day off. A player who is extremely proud to present himself and play every day, Soto still tried to make his way into the alignment of his day earlier this season, but the dishes insisted to sit.
NL player of the month in June, Soto strikes .249 with an OPS of .875 and 25 circuits. He directed the NL in walks with 84 and stole a career summit of 15 bases this year in 16 trials.
Luisangel Acuña played the bottom of the eighth in the central field and McNeil returned to the right. With an overabundance of young infielders and even more needed stains in the minor leagues, the dishes would have listened to offers on Acuña and Mark Venos. They have planned to negotiate McNeil in the past, finally choosing to keep the versatile defender.
McNeil had difficult games in the central field on Tuesday evening, playing there for the third consecutive match. He could not prevent Fernando Tatis Jr. from moving on to the third to a deep fly during the first round, and he could not reach a simple shallow in the seventh, when the dishes abandoned five points deserved in a defeat of 7-1. However, he was able to make a sliding stop on the ball to stay in front of him to prevent the head runner from moving forward after the second.
If Soto finds himself for an extended period, McNeil could also obtain a certain right field look.
“This is not an easy situation, but that’s what allows me to make a lot of movements in the game,” said Mendoza. “We saw him today, in the center, right, then in the center, then you have this ability to enter the inner field. He says a lot about whom he is as a player and his desire to do everything you need.”
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